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Gospel Reflection–Sr Katherine Stone MGL–Wisdom Breaking Burdensome Detail (Sr Katherine Stone says that often, we are subsumed by details that seem far away from the heart of what we are doing. Jesus is protesting just such a dynamic in today’s Gospel. From the moment people set foot within the Temple precinct, the details seemed to overtake the relationship they have with God. As human beings, we put together systems to make our lives easier, but after some time, we can find ourselves spending more time and effort on the system than on the good it was designed to achieve. Surely it doesn’t need to be this complicated! Each Lent, we are invited to come back to the heart of our relationship with God. But it’s easy to get distracted from this profound truth of who we are, especially in today’s busy and demanding world so that our living relationship with God is pushed to the periphery while the money changers and livestock sellers absorb our attention. Maybe the wisdom we need from God is about which things we